Coding Interview Question: Autocomplete

Question

Write an autocomplete class that returns all dictionary words with a given prefix.

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dict:{"abc","acd","bcd","def","a","aba"}

prefix:"a"->"abc","acd","a","aba"

prefix:"b"->"bcd"

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Solution

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